Sri Lanka creates ministry of technology and investment promotion

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has created a new ministry of Technology and Investment Promotion placing the immigration department, the Board of Investment, Colombo Port City Commission and industrial parks under it.

Sri Lanka does not have permanent secretaries and both ministries and secretaries are fluid.

Ministries are created and destroyed by gazette notice at a dizzying pace.

Under Sri Lanka’s constitution, the ‘impermanent secretaries’ lose office as soon as the Prime Minister resigns and the cabinet is dissolved.

After ex-Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned, the portfolios reverted to the President.

A Ministry of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment was also created.

Following agencies are under the Minister of Technology and Investment Promotion.

1. Department of Registration of Persons

2. Department of Immigration and Emigration

3. Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka and Allied Institutions

4. Information and Communication Technology Agency and Allied Institutions

5. Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team

6. Sri Lanka Telecom and its Subsidiaries and Allied Institutions

7. Colombo Lotus Tower Management Company (Pvt.) Limited

8. Techno Park Development Company (Pvt.) Limited

9. Information Technology Parks (Jaffna & Mannar)

10. Industrial Technology Institute

11. Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (Pvt.) Ltd

12. Sri Lanka Standards Institute

13. Sri Lanka Institute of Biotechnology (Pvt.) Ltd.

14. Board of Investment of Sri Lanka

15. Colombo Port City Economic Commission